Mountain bikers seek to gut Wilderness Act

Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Calif., recently introduced a bill in Congress at the behest of a group of mountain biking proponents that would eviscerate the 1964 Wilderness Act and allow bicycles in every wilderness in the nation.

The bill, House Resolution 1349, was introduced March 15 on behalf of the mountain biker organization, the Sustainable Trails Coalition — STC.  This bill would amend the Wilderness Act to allow bikes, strollers, wheelbarrows, game carts, survey wheels, and measuring wheels in every unit of the National Wilderness Preservation System.  In an especially cynical and d...